We played:
We will continue to meet as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.
We played:
We will continue to meet as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.
Countertenor and cornettist Michael Collver will join El Dorado
Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Paul Johnson Mai-Lan Broekman &
Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, vihuela &
archlute) in a concert of tientos, ricercadas, villancicos,
canciones and motets by Vasquez, Ortiz, Cabezón, Selma, Guerrero &
Trabac on Saturday, January 24, 2015, 8pm, at First Church
Cambridge.
Starting this week, the city of Cambridge has extended metered
parking in Kendall Square to 8pm instead of 6pm. This may mean
that they are also extending the hours that the parking control officers
work on my block. So if you arrive on time, and don’t have a
resident sticker, you should use the visitor permit, if you’re
parking in a permit only space.
We played:
We will continue to meet as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.
The Boston
Recorder Society is hosting a workshop on Saturday afternoon,
January 31, about playing matched Renaissance recorders,
specifically those of Tom Prescott. You can
sign up on the website.
We welcomed the new dog, Maia.
![[decorated Possibilitree]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014-12-30-18-55-53.jpg)
For the last 20 years or so, I’ve been buying a tree, taking it home, lugging it up the stairs, standing on ladders to get the decorations down from the top shelf of the closet, standing on ladders to get the decorations on the tree, spilling water and knocking off ornaments when I watered it, vacuuming up the needles, and when the season is over, doing all of that in reverse.
I never looked forward to any of the lugging or standing on ladders. Additionally, a friend who has something like the same kind of asthma that I do has been raving about how much better her Christmases are now that she has an artificial tree. I didn’t know that mine would be, but I thought it might be worth trying.
I never wanted a green artificial tree, but I did spend some time thinking about a silver one. But really, they look tacky.
Then I was listening to the local PBS station noontime talk show discuss artificial trees, and someone called in and said that they were just putting up their Possibilitree. It sounded just like what I had been looking for — light, easy to store, and not aggressively artifical.
There should be an intermediate size between the three foot one and the five foot one you have to suspend from the ceiling, but the three foot one is certainly light and easy to store and decorate.
I spent some time figuring out how to light it, and decided on two spotlights with color-changing bulbs. Here’s what it looked like before I added decorations.
![[bare Possibilitree, green]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014-12-22-17-59-50.jpg)
![[pink possibilitree]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014-12-22-17-59-56.jpg)
In addition to the colors on the tree itself, it made interesting colored shadows on the ceiling.
![[Possibilitree shadows on ceiling]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2014-12-22-18-01-11.jpg)
I’m thinking of putting it up again with eggs on it at Easter.
![[Maia]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/maiasofa.jpg)
I just adopted Maia from Buddy Dog no-kill shelter in Sudbury.”
She’s 1-2 years old. They say she’s a beagle-boxer mix, but after I was hooked they mentioned that someone might think she had some pit bull somewhere.
She and her sister belonged to a homeless person, who couldn’t take care of them and left them somewhere, where Animal Control picked them up and brought them to Buddy Dog.
She was Mia at the shelter, but I modified it to Maia, because her cousin Orion is a constellation (as well as a mighty hunter), and Maia was one of the Pleiades. Also the mother of Hermes and the foster-mother of another of Zeus’ children, whose own mother Hera turned into a bear.
![[Orion]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/orion-laughing.jpg)
So far, so good. She was good in the car, and hasn’t destroyed anything, and liked the quick tour of the dog park (with no other dogs) I gave her on the way home from the shelter.
![[Maia]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/maia-full.jpg)
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge.
The party is tomorrow, January 1, 2015 starting at 4 pm, also
at 233 Broadway. A sharp-eyed reader (who has probably been
proofreading lots of flyers and invitations and bulletins) noted
that yesterday I
invited you to a party on January 1, 2014. There was one, and it
was good, but you still have a chance to come to the one in
2015.
Please come and tell everyone you know to bring everyone they
know. I feel grateful to the people who tell me that they’re
coming and what they’re bringing to share.
We played:
We will be meeting on Tuesdays, including tonight, December 30,
as usual at 7:45 pm at 233 Broadway, Cambridge.
The party will be
on Thursday, January 1, 2015, starting at 4pm. Come and tell
everyone you know to bring everyone they know. Especially bring
people who might enjoy also coming on Tuesdays.
We played:
We will be meeting as usual on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. This will be true on December 23; we have
not yet made a decision about December 30.
This year’s party will be on January 1 starting at 4 pm, at 233
Broadway, Cambridge. More information is available here.
Please invite anyone you think would enjoy it, which is pretty
much anyone who likes eating, drinking, and/or singing or playing
Christmas music. But especially invite anyone who might enjoy
coming to our group on Tuesdays — the drop in nature of the group
means that the more people think about coming, the more likely we
are to have a good group on any given Tuesday.
![[bringing in the Yule log]](http://www.pbase.com/peterb/image/147581567.jpg)
Here’s a (slightly) more conventional invitation
that you can print out and fold and put in your pocket.
![[buche de Noël]](https://blog.laymusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/c631c-p1013354.jpg)
We played:
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We continue to meet as usual on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 PM at
233 Broadway, Cambridge. We have agreed to meet on December 23;
we will still discuss whether there will be a meeting on December 30.
The annual party will be on January 1, starting at 4 pm. As
usual, we’ll eat and drink until there’s critical mass for
playing, then sing and play for a while, then eat and drink some
more…
I will produce (more) formal invitations soon, but please start
telling everybody you know to bring everybody they know.
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